At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them!
CHAPTER 4 2 Timothy 4:1-4 1. I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 1. Obtestor igitur ego coram Deo et Domino Iesu Christo, qui judicaturus est vivos et mortuos in apparitione sua et in regno suo; 2.
Commenting on 2 Timothy 4:1-22
Here, I. He gives Timothy an account of his own present circumstances. 1. He had lately been called to appear before the emperor, upon his appeal to Caesar; and then no man stood with him (Ti2 4:16), to plead his cause, to bear testimony for him, or so much as to keep him in countenance, but all men forsook him.
Commenting on 2 Timothy 4:16-22
And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work,.... From wicked and unreasonable men, and all their attempts upon him, and from all afflictions by them; not but that he expected afflictions as long as he was in the world, but he knew that God would support him under them; and in his own time and way deliver out of them; and at last...